My two kids don't even know they are allowed on a boat without a lifejacket. Like car seats in the car, they know they have to be in one. Good rule, $500 seems to be steep for first offense but some people have to be saved from their stupidity.

It's definitely a good idea to have the kid in a life jacket, but new laws suck, period.

Back in the day kids lived in houses with lead paint, rode bicycles without helmets, went and played near ponds and lakes without supervision, played with mercury in school, and rode in cars that didn't even have seatbelts. Most of them survived.

Now you're an unfit parent if you spank your kids. I think we've gone a little overboard...

great law, when i was twelve i make the firs recue of my life , i was walking to my dad's boat in a marina, and i saw a little girl in the water, holding of a rope that hang out of a big boat, the boat was runing and thier parent can hear her, i jump in the water and tow her to a ramp amd we got out, when i take her back to their boat the parent don't know she was outside , and they are ready to leave. if she had a lifevest on was difernt, she may swim out herself.rf

I have to agree with sleeper dave. There are already too many laws. Why is it that we are no longer capable of taking care of ourselves? Remember, once there is a law, there is very little room for "common sense".